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ὑπολευκαίνομαι?

Non-contract Verb; 이상동사 Transliteration: hypoleukainomai

Principal Part: ὑπολευκαίνομαι

Structure: ὑπο (Prefix) + λευκαίν (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Sense

  1. to become white underneath or somewhat white

Conjugation

Present tense

Imperfect tense

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • περὶ δὲ τοὺς κροτάφους ὁπόταν ἀσθενήσῃ τὸ φάρμακον, ᾧ βάπτεται, ὑπολευκαίνεται τὰ πολλά. (Lucian, Dialogi meretricii, 3:4)
  • ὡς δ ἄνεμος ἄχνας φορέει ἱερὰς κατ ἀλωὰς ἀνδρῶν λικμώντων, ὅτε τε ξανθὴ Δημήτηρ κρίνῃ ἐπειγομένων ἀνέμων καρπόν τε καὶ ἄχνας, αἳ δ ὑπολευκαίνονται ἀχυρμιαί: (Homer, Iliad, Book 5 53:5)

Derived

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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